Tucker Carlson debated a Democratic strategist who agreed with some of Hillary Clinton's recent statements, saying that President Trump relied on a southern-strategy-type campaign message to win in 2016.

Clinton told CBS' Charlie Rose that watching Trump on Inauguration Day was "an out of body experience," which culminated in a speech "from the white nationalist gut."

Michael Starr Hopkins said Clinton's assertion deserved some credence, as he said Trump used a "Lee Atwater playbook" during his campaign.

Atwater, a top Republican operative who eventually led President George H.W. Bush's campaign, used to speak of a "southern strategy."

The "southern strategy" relied on appealing to racist tendencies in the Civil Rights-era South, in order to garner votes away from popular Democrats like former Gov. George Wallace (D-Ala.) and instead toward Republicans like the 1964 presidential nominee, Barry Goldwater of Arizona.

Those who believe that the Republicans - formed in part as an abolitionist party - and Democrats effectively inverted themselves ideologically in the mid-20th century often point to the "southern strategy" in their arguments.

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